Project Manager II - Rail
Oakland, CAFull-time$188–301K/yrSeen 4w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Project Manager II – Rail manages assigned engineering projects throughout their lifecycle, from scope development and contract negotiations through delivery. The role oversees budgets, schedules, technical requirements, contractual obligations, and client communications, while performing and reviewing technical work. It leads multidisciplinary teams on strategic and mini-mega projects or contributes as a discipline lead on larger projects, with responsibility for client relationships, project staffing, and business development.
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What We're Looking For
At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.
This opportunity entails being responsible managing assigned project(s) throughout their full lifecycle including developing the scope and technical sections of proposal and procurement documents to participating in contract negotiations and overseeing the delivery of the project plan to successfully accomplish HNTB’s 4 for 4 performance: delivery of quality work, on time, on budget and to the client’s satisfaction on every project. This position proactively manages the budget, schedule, technical requirements, contractual obligations, and client communications in support of the project’s objectives. Provides high level technical tasks while managing and reviewing design related specifications, calculations, reports and plans. Coordinates with internal and external partners including cross-discipline and functional teams to address and problem solve design related issues or concerns. The Project Manager II – Engineering typically manages multi-disciplinary project team(s) for one or more strategic (<$1M) or mini-mega ($1M to <$5M) projects, or may lead and/or work as a discipline lead on a mega ($5M to < $25M) project management team.
What You'll Do:
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Responsible for development of the project scope and fee quotation and assists in the preparation of technical proposals and contracts in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Contracting Approach (SCA). Leads or actively participates in client contract scoping and negotiations.
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Serves as the primary client liaison and manages the project team to deliver the scope, schedule and budgets to completion and to the client’s satisfaction. Leads client contract scoping and negotiations.
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Performs technical discipline tasks including analysis, reports, design, specification, and production for assigned projects.
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Implements the firm’s project delivery plan using HNTB's Sophisticated Delivery Approach (SDA) on each project. Leads the development and the execution of the project management plan. Supervises and mentors team to overall project objectives.
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Responsible for/oversees project staffing, including, but not limited to; recruitment, development, retention, and succession of project staff; development of plan for project staff reporting; and support for performance and compensation reviews.
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Partners with Client Service Leaders and pursuit champions to assist with business development, building client relationships, and pursuit efforts for mini-mega and mega projects in accordance with HNTB's Sophisticated Sales Approach (SSA). Works with the project team and marketing resources to prepare appropriate proposal and presentation materials. Leads proposal development and interview presentations for strategic, mini-mega, and mega projects to the client as well as general presentations within the industry and community.
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May be responsible for the recruitment, hiring, development and retention of staff, including development of plan for staff reporting, performance and compensation reviews, and succession.
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Performs other duties as assigned.
What You'll Need:
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Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 10 years of relevant experience
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2 years of successful management of engineering projects
What You'll Bring:
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Winning, contracting, and successfully delivering 4for4 (on-time, on-budget, quality, client satisfaction) on multi-disciplined projects. Identifying and handling risk and change management with guidance from more experienced staff.
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Leading a team on mid-sized and/or moderately complex projects inside and outside of HNTB using sub-consultants.
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Using system tools to manage, monitor, and deliver mid-sized and/or moderately complex projects.
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Leading with minimal assistance from the Office Management Team in implementing HNTB Sophisticated processes as applicable to the project.
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Serving as the lead interface with the client on moderately complex projects.
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Developing successors to work with same client on other work.
What We Prefer:
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Master’s degree in Engineering
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12 years relevant experience
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Professional Engineer (PE) certification
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American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification
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Project Management Professional (PMP)
Additional Information
Click here for benefits information: HNTB Total Rewards
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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Locations:
Oakland, CA, San Jose, CA
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The approximate pay range for the California San Francisco Bay Area is $188,125.20 - $300,511.68. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual’s qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.
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NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:
HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.
Job Type: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full time
Job Category: Engineering Group
ReqID: R-31717
How this job compares
Set against the 22,993 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$188–301K/yr
- California median$125–190K/yr1,418 salary ranges
- US median$111–178K/yr14,446 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $244K, is 50% above the California median midpoint ($163K) — in the top quarter of Project Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,781 open Project Manager jobs in California and 22,993 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (19,950 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 12,857 of the 22,993 open Project Manager jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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